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Photoshop Elements 2018 features automated tools for editing your photos, creating calendars, scrapbooks, and cards that you can print right at home, and much more.

Premiere Elements 2018 provides easy-to-use and automated tools for making creative, polished movies. The application supports up to Ultra HD 4K resolution editing and export, and offers a simple, drag-and-drop interface with many functions requiring no more than a drag or a click or two.

Edit: Actually, scratch that. The disc version comes with both the Windows and Mac edition, whereas with the download version you have to choose between both OS'es. Supposedly, you can use the serial number on the box to unlock the the trial version (source[adobe.com]) so no problem if you don't have a drive.

Can anyone give the poweruser descriptions of differences between the Elements versions and CC or CS versions of Photoshop and Premiere?

Asking for a friend who might want legitimate copies...

Poweruser? No. But since no one answered you...
Elements is a seriously downgraded version of PS.
Will it do most of what the avg. Slickdeals shopper wants? Yes.
Thing is, a lot of the normal Photoshop functionality is in there.. it's just not unlocked. There is a $12 3rd party program called Elements+ that unlocks it and makes this a whole lot closer to PS. The interface isn't beautiful but it's functional from the little I messed with it. There are quite a few videos for it too.
If he doesn't need the video editing, the reg. version of PS Elements only, was just on sale for $59, and will be more often soon. It's getting dated.

Honestly, if this "friend" is used to the PS interface, and likes it, Affinity Photo ($40) is closer than Elements.

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